Learn about new stuff

These websites are fantastic if you’re studiying WWII. Lots of great information and pictures. Great resources and even stuff on propaganda.

WW2 Gallery
LTS 20th Century

Check out Engaging Places, a site dedicated to teaching and learning through buildings and places, from the CABE and English Heritage.

There you’ll will find: educational resources to help with your teaching; articles to stimulate your curriculum planning; educational news; and a search facility for finding activities and events near you.

It’s nice when you get an email saying how much people love the blog and how much they use it. We were asked for some good sites to use for explaining growing plants to Foundation Stage/KS1 pupils, by a student from BG, so here they are:

Kew Gardens
Sparky
Growing Plants
BBC Science
Make a seed grow

The aim of Tutpup is to provide simple, fun, competitive games that help children learn and gain confidence with Maths, English and other key skills and knowledge.

Pupils can play against others from all over the world or on their own, but they can’t send messages.

If a child registers to use Tutpup, an email titled “Is it OK for your child to use www.tutpup.com?” is sent to the address provided for their parent or guardian.

Children are automatically granted 7 days access to Tutpup.
For the child to continue using Tutpup, the parent/guardian must use the email to approve their ongoing use of Tutpup.

Moshi Monsters is a free online game for kids, in which they adopt a monster and look after it. Kids whose parents give us their approval can become members on our site, and can adopt a Moshi Monster. Kids care for their monster by solving puzzle games, which earn their monster virtual rewards called Rox. Kids can spend Rox on virtual items like food, furniture and other treats and toys for their monster. Over time their monster will increase in level, be able to visit new locations in Monstro City, and earn all kinds of in-game rewards for playing.

Monster owners will also be able to make friends with other owners and leave messages on their pages, which is regulated by the Moshi Team.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes.

The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Thanks to John for this site.

This from the creator of Science Boot Camp:

Hi – I’m Rachael, an ex-teacher, and I’ve created a free resource to help
Year 6 students revise for their upcoming science SATs exam. It’s called
Science Boot Camp and I believe you’ll find it really useful.

Check it out: Science Boot Camp

From O2 comes the Cybernuts and e-safety.

Introduce children to the Cybernuts and make their digital adventures safer – and much more fun.

Free copies of Who wnts 2 no? a book about being safe online, has been created to help promote safe internet use. It’s available for schools and libraries.

Copies of the book can be ordered online, Here

The nice guys at Film Education have a had a makeover at their site and it’s easier to find all the really useful stuff.

Check it out at Film Education.org

Janet at Potterhanworth School recommends this site, Topic Box.

It’s great for links to themes within subject areas and there’s lots to click on and use.

Take a look, the site says it can save you time. Which is a good thing on our book!